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A Country Meets 93% of Itself: Trinidad and Tobago's First Home-Grown Deep-Sea Expedition

For the first time in its history, Trinidad and Tobago led its own deep-sea expedition — and came home with 25 cold seep...

15 Oct 2026

The Giant That Waited 40 Years in a Drawer: Meet Science's Newest Colossogiant

A 32.2-centimetre 'colossogiant' isopod collected in Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat unrecognized in a German university co...

14 Oct 2026

The Snail That Commutes Through Sunlight: How Deep-Sea Limpets Travel Between Ocean Worlds

Vent limpets born in deep-sea darkness travel up to the sunlit upper ocean, ride surface currents to new hydrothermal ve...

12 Oct 2026

Science Just Learned to Measure the Mangrove Shield

A record typhoon wave shrank from 0.9 metres to 0.36 metres crossing a single football field of mangroves — and two new...

09 Oct 2026

The Ocean's Medicine Cabinet Just Opened: Five New Compounds From 1,200 Sea Microbes

A five-year EU research project just proved the ocean works like a medicine cabinet: scientists analysed 1,200+ marine m...

07 Oct 2026

The Ocean's Oldest Compass: A 97-Million-Year-Old Particle May Be the First Animal GPS

A spearhead-shaped particle smaller than a bacterium, lifted from North Atlantic seafloor mud, carries a tornado-shaped...

05 Oct 2026

12,000 Tiny Fossils From a Darwin Warehouse Just Rewrote the Opening Chapter of Complex Life

Rock cores drilled decades ago and stored in Darwin, Australia held more than 12,000 fossils of 1.75-billion-year-old eu...

02 Oct 2026

Meet the Tilcayo: The Tiny Cloud-Forest Cat That Became a New Species After a Decade as a Family Pet

A house-cat-sized feline rescued in Bolivia's cloud forest has been revealed as Leopardus tilcayo — the first new wild c...

29 Sep 2026

The Ghost-White Coral That Cracked a Century-Old Deep-Sea Mystery

A new ghost-white deep-sea coral from the Nazca Ridge builds a tree-sized colony out of grains of sand — and its tissues...

29 Sep 2026

The Boneless Coral That Stood 10 Metres Tall: New Species Solves a 140-Year Mystery

A new deep-sea coral species from the Nazca Ridge carries chitin — the stuff of crab shells and butterfly wings — hidden...

22 Sep 2026

Every Shell Tells the Same 540-Million-Year Story: Half of Nature's Best Ideas Came First

A new PNAS study read 540 million years of mollusk history and found that nearly half of all major shell inventions appe...